Karnataka Assembly Speaker  

Chincholi Congress MLA Umesh Jadhav formally quit the party as he tendered his resignation to the Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar. Though the Congress dismissed it as a foregone conclusion, the void created is huge as it may prod other disgruntled members to walk the same path

"A woman will say that she was raped only once in reality, but she was raped multiple times in court during cross-examination. My situation is like that here," Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar said during a debate.

Comparing himself with a rape victim, Ramesh Kumar, the Speaker of the Karnataka state Assembly chose to exhibit the delicate and untenable situation he was put in by the members of both the ruling and opposition parties.

 

Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah along with Dinesh Gundu Rao and G Parameshwara urged the Assembly Speaker to take action against four rebel Congress leaders